Ile d'Oleron - Les Boulassiers Wind Stats
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This chart shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical May. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 2838 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Ile d'Oleron - Les Boulassiers, located 13 km away (8 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the dominant wind at Ile d'Oleron - Les Boulassiers blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ile d'Oleron - Les Boulassiers. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 9% of the time (3 days each May) and blows offshore 32% of the time (9 days in an average May). In a typical May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Ile d'Oleron - Les Boulassiers
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